Cambodia News: Mam Somaly

20 dead, mostly children, in Nigeria building collapseBy SAM OLUKOYA and LEKAN OYEKANMIAssociated PressFriday, March 15LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ...

Governments should heed the expertise of the grassroots nonprofits that witness this scourge firsthand.

Does the true identity of a writer really matter? Authors who fabricated literary personas share how their fantasies became nightmares.

Everyone is stanning Cardi B's very talented pianist, who opened the rapper's Grammys performance with some virtuosic broken chords.

On music's biggest night, it was all about the ladies—and rightfully so. The 61st Annual Grammy Awards took place on February 10, and it's safe to say that it was ...

In a statement, the author of “The Color Purple” did nothing to dispel the criticism of her endorsement of David Icke's anti-Jewish book “And the Truth Will Set You ...

In 1172, the Christian monk Thomas of Monmouth completed his book about the death and alleged miracles of St. William of Norwich. Thomas had been hard at ...

This story has been updated. Critics call it anti-Semitic, saying it places Holocaust revisionism at the center of an odious and addled worldview. The same ...

The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, ...

Sarandon was the guest of honor at the annual soiree. Together1Heart recognized The Feud star's 'fierce support' in the fight to end human trafficking.

Together1Heart president AnnaLynne McCord donned a belly-baring gown to her human-trafficking organization's inaugural gala, which took place at Tao ...

I would love to share my thoughts about MANASA, which is a rehabilitation and training center in Pamboor, Udupi, India.

Young women from disadvantaged backgrounds are leaving home for the first time to live in shared dormitories — and demand a better quality of life.

I have been shocked to see an increase in campaigns promoting America's understanding of everything about sex, and in particular sex work and sex trafficking.

A well-meaning journalist brushes off critiques by experts in the field. He owes it to his readers to keep learning.

The global health and international aid sectors perform critical work. But how do we ensure that such efforts are carried out with integrity? Oxfam's ex-country ...

The UN Women for Peace Association Annual Awards Luncheon was held at the UN Nations Headquarters in the Delegates Dining Room in celebration of ...

By the age of 24, Rosie had set up a not-for-profit child welfare organisation called foundations.(au) and a home for at-risk Ugandan children, known as ...

Woman's Day Editor in Chief Susan Spencer and Publisher and CRO Kassie Means hosted the 15th annual Woman's Day Red Dress Awards at Jazz at Lincoln ...

Have you ever questioned the motivation behind your life's work? Stephanie Lorenzo did, and a year later she was in Cambodia, at the beginning of a ...

SART the little five-year-old Cambodian girl cooed at me, gently touching the tattoo on my left forearm.

With the closure of the The Cambodia Daily, Cambodia is losing its only true independent paper of record.

Douglas Gillison, executive editor from 2009-11, writes a eulogy for the outspoken paper that was a thorn in the Cambodian regime's side.

“It's all a lie. It's all a big lie.” That's how director Josie Swantek Heitz, her face stunned and expressionless as she leans against a wall, informs ...

Together1heart president AnnaLynne McCord on the breakdown and rebranding of the Somaly Mam Foundation.

In 2014, Newsweek published a devastating cover story alleging that the high-profile Cambodian anti-trafficking activist had created a web of lies to fund her ...

Sex Slave Story Revealed to Be Fabricated.” This headline could have run in a recent Washington Post, atop any number of stories breaking down the ...

Jan Karski was one of the great moral heroes of the 20th century. A Polish diplomat who narrowly escaped the Katyn massacre and then joined the anti-Nazi ...

For six seasons, the actress Shay Mitchell has been best known to viewers as Emily on Pretty Little Liars, bringing to life one of TV's most visible young LGBT ...

Sex and labor trafficking are problems. But the state is left to create laws with no reliable data on the scope of problem in Michigan, or even a common ...

Most sex workers in Cambodia, Hoefinger says, are not trapped by brothel overlords. They're instead trapped in a shattered economy where alternative options ...

A year after Somaly Mam was forced to quit her own foundation, concerns remain as she attempts to rise phoenix-like from the ashes On May 28 last year, the ...

The news last year that Somaly Mam was starting a new charity dedicated to fighting human trafficking and sex slavery raises the question of how a damaged ...

Garment manufacturers in Cambodia benefit when anti-trafficking programmes portray clothing manufacturing as the only viable and, crucially, moral labour ...

A fallen anti-human trafficking activist fights to restore her reputation by setting up a new non-governmental organisation. How far will she go?

Sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam, who resigned from her now-shuttered foundation last year following a damaging Newsweek article and investigation, has ...

AnnaLynne McCord hugs good friend Somaly Mam close on the step and repeat at the 2015 UN Women For Peace Association International Women's Day ...

When Somaly Mam was accused last year of fraud and dishonesty about her past, the repercussions were felt not just by the foundation that bore her name but ...

101 East talks to Cambodia's fallen anti-sex trafficking icon as she fights to restore her reputation and save her NGO.

Will Somaly Mam's new attempt to set up an anti-trafficking organization be enough to put the controversies of the past year behind? This is the conundrum that ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Disgraced Cambodian anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam, who was forced to resign from her own foundation ...

Bangkok: A foundation supporting anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam has closed but the disgraced Cambodian woman feted at charity events in Australia is ...

The Somaly Mam Foundation, which worked against human trafficking and sexual exploitation, has closed five months after its founder resigned amid ...

The Somaly Mam Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating sex trafficking in Cambodia, has “officially ceased all operations, ended all grant ...

The Somaly Mam Foundation, an anti-human trafficking organization that was thrust into the spotlight earlier this year after its namesake founder was accused of ...

The controversy over Somaly Mam, the Cambodian anti-trafficking activist, just took a turn for the weird.

Celebrities no longer just raise money and awareness. They offer advice about how to approach and 'solve' the human trafficking problem. The United Nations ...

Somaly Mam may want to forget all about Newsweek's cover story on her in May and start over in her anti-sex-trafficking activism, but Cambodia won't let her, ...

This means war! In the annals of pitched battles between rival media outlets, a brass-knuckled skirmish pitting Newsweek against Marie Claire seems especially ...

Anti-trafficking activist Somaly Mam has spoken out to defend herself for the first time following a bombshell Newsweek story which portrayed her as a fraud, ...

Readers might think nonfiction books are the most reliable media sources there are. But accuracy scandals haven't reformed an industry that faces no big ...

The world's celebrity obsession grows every day. How else to explain why doing a Google search on the name Kim Kardashian gets 51 million results?

Heroes are complicated and victims aren't always who we think they are. As journalists, we are storytellers lured by the power of a great narrative. But we are ...

It is time we inspect the basic motives to why we engage in this fight against injustice. Whether it is on grounds of human decency and equality, or beca...

Anti-trafficking NGO Afesip has announced that funding from the Somaly Mam Foundation, which is the organization's primary donor, was completely terminated ...

The fall from grace of activist Somaly Mam, the face of Cambodia's anti-sex trafficking movement, is potentially a setback for the campaign to protect the ...

In April of 2010, New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof was preparing to head out on a reporting expedition to Sudan when he stopped in at the ...

Allegations that the Cambodian anti-trafficking activist Somaly Mam fabricated details of her past has cast a harsh light on what some aid workers say is routine ...

Activists say the story of Somaly Mam is part of a larger tale of deception meant to attract foreign money into impoverished Cambodia.

Another high-profile sex trafficking yarn is coming unraveled.

The downfall of anti-sex-slavery activist Somaly Mam has led some to question the extent of trafficking.

Somaly Mam described having been trafficked into a brothel as a young girl in Cambodia, then escaping and helping others—and she came to run a couple of ...

“There are various other tricks of the trade. I've learned when to be more suspicious of people…. I think there's a tendency to believe victims, for example.

Why exactly did the telegenic Cambodian campaigner use fake trafficking victims to raise philanthropic cash from Westerners? And when will Nicholas Kristof ...

When Maya Angelou died last week, many of the remembrances of the poet included variants on one of Angelou's oft-repeated maxims: “The first time someone ...

She was starved in New York with her baby and forced to have sex with as many as three dozen men a day. Why a Mexican teen is still terrified, even as her ...

Somaly Mam, an international crusader who said she survived sex slavery in Cambodia, resigns after Newsweek reports her story is untrue.

1. Activist Somaly Mam quits foundation amid claims she faked personal story  The Guardian
2. Sex slavery activist Somaly Mam quits foundation after book probe  Los Angeles Times
3. Sex slave activist forced out of own foundation  NEWS.com.au
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A two-month-long legal investigation into allegations of false biographical claims tarnishes two decades of *service* against sex trafficking.

Somaly Mam runs an organization that operates women's shelters in Southeast Asia. A prominent figure in the anti-sex-trafficking movement, she's spoken...

Somaly Mam saved countless girls in Cambodia. Does it matter if key parts of her story aren't true?

In 2013, like hundreds of thousands of other migrant workers, Erwiana Sulistyaningsih moved to another country (Hong Kong) in hopes of a better tomorrow.

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Editor's Note: Somaly Mam is a global leader who has pioneered the movement against modern slavery for nearly two decades. She has been recognized as a ...

Matt Lauer and Al Roker got prostate exams on NBC's “Today” show last week — while their colleagues giggled on-air and the snarky tweets rolled in. But just ...

Raped at 12, forced to marry at 15 and then sold into prostitution, Somaly Mam has risen from Cambodia's brothels to be the glamorous, celebrity face of the ...

Cambodia's celebrity anti-trafficking activist and former victim Somaly Mam's stories blown out of the water by local journo. Somaly Mam, co-founder and ...

Since its creation in 2007, the Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF) has attracted top U.S. business leaders and Hollywood stars to the worthy cause of combating the ...

Estée Lauder Companies teams up with trafficking survivor-turned-activist to provide new Siem Reap-based social enterprise with training, supplies and support.

She was joined by Dallas hunk Josh Henderson, Graceland star Serinda Swan, and Sharknado actress Cassie Scerbo.

New York City-based salon owner Michael Angelo has long been privy to the beauty industry's inescapable image-driven, superficial depths. It's why he has set ...

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On January 11, 2013, Sharnoff's Global Views concluded an interview with Amy Merrill, director of marketing and development at the Somaly Mam Foundation.

SHE remembers a home that looked fancy on the outside but ominous on the inside, a dark maze of bare chambers. She remembers the parade of men, day by ...

Best known for playing Lester Patal on NBC's Chuck, Vik Sahay is also a keen supporter of charity. LookToTheStars.org recently sat down and chatted with him ...

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I am in a van with Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon and her daughter Eva Amurri, bouncing along a dirt road in the Cambodian countryside, and are ...

Somaly Mam, the founder of Cambodian shelters for former sex slaves, and Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon, a formidable fund-raiser for the cause, are ...

Learning about the difficult topics of human trafficking and sexual servitude by reading the work of Nicholas D. Kristof, a Times columnist, in a lesson developed ...

When 6-year-olds are sold to be tortured and raped, it's time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement to end human trafficking.

The global movement against human trafficking is making progress. In Cambodia, I followed one of my heroes, Somaly Mam, in a raid on a brothel with ...

Yesterday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof live-tweeted a brothel raid in Cambodia. Kristof's novel approaches to international women-rights ...

On Thursday, October 20, Look To The Stars' Allison DiLiberto and Scott Cable attended the Somaly Mam Foundation's annual gala at Manhattan's Espace (635 ...

It was a typical fall evening in New York: gusting winds, rush hour traffic and a charity gala. Political activists, ambassadors, State Department grandees and ...

Pretty Little Liars actress Shay Mitchell recently joined the fight against sex trafficking. She visited Cambodia in February with the Somaly Mam Foundation to ...

In a special episode of “America's Most Wanted” airing on FOX this Saturday, host John Walsh will take viewers to the front lines of the international battle ...

Sold into sexual slavery early in her life, today Somaly Mam fights human trafficking and protects young girls in Cambodia against sexual abuse.

Somaly Mam and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were born around the same time — when the U.S. began secretly carpet bombing her country. The bombed ...

Anyone who thinks it is hyperbole to describe sex trafficking as slavery should look at the maimed face of a teenage girl, Long Pross.

As long as 14-year-old girls are being jolted with electric shocks to make them smile before sex tourists in Cambodia, the abolitionist cause for slavery has not ...